Site is indexed, but not on the first 5 pages

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by chroncile, Apr 12, 2009.

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    My site is indexed and I have done so much SEO, yet its not even in the first 5 pages :(

    My site is http://www.anoobsguide.com

    The only thing that is actually on the first page is 'how to make gimp run in one window'. Everything else is no where to be found :(

    Please help me, I have tried everything!
     
    chroncile, Apr 12, 2009 IP
  2. Canonical

    Canonical Well-Known Member

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    Honestly, it doesn't appear you've done much SEO at all to me. Don't take any of the following personally... It's totally meant to be constructive critisism so that you will start looking at your site from a different perspective.

    Your site seems to have no particular topic. You have posts on a bunch of random topics that appear to have nothing in common. Even if you manage to rank, it's going to be VERY tough to keep a user's interest and make them want to return to your site repeatedly if you are writing about random, off the wall, non-related topics. You are not about.com or wikipedia.org so it's going to be hard to develop a following by writing about random stuff.

    Your site needs focus on a particular topic or theme. Everything on your site should be in some way related to that topic. What is your site really about? I mean if you had to sum up in in 65 characters or less what your entire site is about then which words would you use?

    The <title> element is the MOST important on-page SEO factor. Your home page has a <title> of "A Noobs Guide". Do your really think someone is going to go to Google and search on "A Noobs Guide"? I think not. Yet you are telling Google and the other engines that the MOST important keyword phrase that you want your home page to rank for is "A Noobs Guide". Terrible <title> element.

    You've made the title of every individual post on your home page an <h1>... Yet NONE of the <h1>s reinforce the <title> of the page. The <h1> is the second most important on-page SEO factor, and like the <title> should tell what the entire page is about. You should really only have ONE <h1> element per page. It should reinforce your <title> by including at least some words from your <title> or slight variations of some of the words from the <title>.

    As I said, I would recommend only having a single <h1>. It should sum up what the page is about and target keywords from the <title>. Use <h2>s as the title of the posts on your home page. And even then you want your posts to be about the same topic or closely related topics which are related to the <title> and <h1> in some way.

    Why on earth does your global navigation (Home | Game Hacks | Gaming Chronicle | Free Proxy) point to 3 other sites? Do you own these? I would suggest NOT interlinking sites which you own unless they are closely related to the same topic as the current site and have their own unique content.

    All of your category pages have the same problems as your home page. Each has a <title> of "A Noob's Guide"... Absolutely terrible. You're telling Google and the other search engines that every one of your categories are about the exact same topic - "A Noob's Guide". EVERY page on your site should have unique <title> elements and they should describe in 1 (or possibly 2 or 3 keyword phrases if slight variations of the primary keyword phrase) what that page is about. Putting the name of your site in the <title> is a terrible idea. It only makes it harder for the page to rank for the targeted keyword phrase(s) for that page. Your Firefox category page should have a <title> like "Firefox" or "Firefox - Firefox Tips".

    Again you made the post titles on the category pages <h1> elements. You should have a single <h1> that targets some of the same keywords from the category <title>.

    You should make your post titles on the category pages <h2> elements. When you write the posts, have in mind which category you plan for it to live in, and target one or more keywords (or slight variations) from the category <title> in the title of the post so that when they appear on the category page, all of the <h2>s are about the same topic as the <h1> which is about the same topic as the <title>.

    Personally I detest sites w/ info links in them. They are annoying when you try to use your mouse to follow your spot when reading. Not sure why people include them...

    All of the CSS styling and JavaScript function definitions in your HTML source code should exist in external files. It's terrible idea to embed them in the source of your page. It greatly increases page load times, increases your content:code ratio, and is just a good idea from a code maintenance perspective to have shared CSS and Javascript functions in external files. If you need to make a change to your styling, you would have to change every page on your site today vs being able to make the change in one spot and have it affect the entire sites if the CSS were in external files.

    I could go on... But DP is going to blow up if I say much more.
     
    Canonical, Apr 12, 2009 IP
  3. chroncile

    chroncile Well-Known Member

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    Honestly, I only understood the title thing. I think you meant it shouldn't be 'How to blah blah - A Noobs Guide'. I just recently added that, before it said 'How to blah blah' without the 'A Noobs Guide'.

    Do you have any experience with blogger because I have no idea how to make the labels page say 'FireFox'.
     
    chroncile, Apr 12, 2009 IP
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    Newly launched websites need some months of time before beginning to get rankings. Links and good content pages can help a lot.
     
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    sellerwhere Peon

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    just wait and see, at the same time add more fresh contents, and some good back links.
     
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    You should learn SEO completely, before you start and manage a site. (or) You could hire some SEO experts for your site.
     
    kutekutta, Apr 13, 2009 IP